CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 6 



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ilate, if there are any frudificarions, they -re 

 only to be found upon fix or eight of the up- 

 permoft pair of phin<s. This is the Filix loncbi- 

 iidis 0ffi?iis. R<i:i Syn. p. 121. f. 4, which Fluke- 

 net has figured in two difi-erent ftate?, Airndg, t. 

 i-j().f. 6. i^.. /• 180./ 3. and this is the POLY- 

 PODIUM lobatum. liudf Fl. Ang. p. 390. 

 It grows connmonly in fhady places. Mr. Talden 

 obfcrv'd it clofe by Moffat well, in Annandale. 14. 



fragile ^, POLYPODIUM frondibus bipinnatis, foliolis re- 

 inotis, pinnis fubrotundis incifis. Sp. pi. 1553. 

 (Ger. em. 1135. /. 2. huic j)ert;};ire lidetur, 6c 

 etiam FailL Fart's, t. 9-/. i. Fluk. alm.t. i^Q.f. 

 5, Icna. Ocd. Dan. t ^01, opt) 



Fine-leav'd brittle Polypody. Anglis. 



Upon rocks, and dry (loney places ficquent. %, 



'""'" It varies from two inches to ten or twelve in 

 height ; its moft common ftature about half a 

 '■■'■ foot. IheTmaller Varieties are figured by Z?flr/"f"- 



Jier. ic. 432./. 2. and by Seguier^ Fhyit.Vtroneni. 

 t i.f. I. 

 The ftalks arc fmooth, flender, very brittle, .-^nd 

 riddifli at the bafe, The leaves aredo\ibly pin- 

 nate, the pinjtie nearly oppofite, from 10 to 15 

 pair, the lowermoft very remote, fhorter than 

 .' , the middle ones, and ail of them pkci'd nearly 



at right angles with the rib. The pinnules in 

 ihe fecond divifiot> are fix or eight pair, each of 

 , ,,„ - them femipinnate, their lobes oUufcly oval, and 



dented 



